Kentucky Sources Checked

Abbreviations for Repositories

• FHC:  Family History Center
• ACPL:  Allen County Public Library, Ft. Wayne, Indiana
• AGLL:  American Genealogical Lending Library
• NCSL:  State Library of North Carolina, Genealogical Service Branch
• FCPL:  Forsyth County Public Library, Winston-Salem, NC

Published Sources

1. Fowler, Ila Earle, Kentucky Pioneers and Their Descendants (Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967).
2. Green, Karen Mauer, The Kentucky Gazette 1801-1820:  Genealogical and Historical Abstracts (Baltimore:  Gateway Press, 1985) (NCSL) (nothing useful)
3. Jerome, Brenda Joyce, Livingston County, Kentucky Deed Books A-C, 1800-1817 (Newburgh, IN:  the author, 1991) (NCSL)
4. Jerome, Brenda Joyce, Livingston County, Kentucky Deed Books D-E, 1818-1822, Vol. II and Miscellaneous Loose Papers, 1799-1804 (Newburgh, IN:  the author, 1991) (NCSL)
5. Jerome, Brenda Joyce, Livingston County, Kentucky Deed Books, 1822-1829, Vol. III (ACPL) (nothing useful)
6. Jerome, Brenda Joyce, Livingston County, Kentucky Will Books A-B, 1799-1813 (Newburgh, IN:  the author, 1991)
7. Jillson, Willard Rouse, The Kentucky Land Grants, 1782-1924 (Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Co., 1971) (FCPL)
8. Jillson, Willard Rouse, Old Kentucky Entries and Deeds (Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969) (FCPL)
9. Kyle, Mrs. Arawana, Caldwell County Marriages, 1809-1900 (Dawson Springs, KY) (AGLL microfiche F-1316)
10. Kyle, Mrs. Arawana Thomas, Our Ancestral Plots:  Caldwell Co., KY cemeteries (Dawson Springs, KY) (AGLL microfiche F-1317) (no Pinnells or Sullivants)
11. Livingston County, Kentucky:  History and families (Smithland, KY:  Livingston County Historical & Genealogical Society, 1989) (ACPL) (nothing useful)
12. Macham, Charles Mayfield, A History of Christian County, Kentucky from Oxcart to Airplane (Nashville, TN: Marshall & Bruce, 1930) (ACPL) (nothing useful)
13. Simmons, Don, Caldwell County, KY Newspaper Genealogical Abstracts (ACPL) (coverage starts in 1904)
14. Simpson, George Brown, Early Union County Militia with origins in Henderson and Christian County Militia (Sturgis, KY: G.B.S. Printing, 1982) (ACPL) (nothing useful)
15. Steger, Samuel W., Caldwell County, Kentucky History (Paducah, KY:  Turner Publishing Co., 1987) (ACPL)
16. Tippie, Gwendolyn G., Caldwell County, Ky. Will Abstracts, 1809-1834 (Lexington, KY:  Kentucky Tree-Search, n.d.) (ACPL)
17. Westerfield, Thomas W., ed., Kentucky Genealogy and Biography, Volume IV (Owensboro, KY:  Genealogical Reference Co., 1972), reprinted from Kentucky:  A History of the State by Battle, Perrin and Kniffin, 3rd. edition, 1886 (Volume IV includes Caldwell & Livingston Counties) (ACPL) (nothing useful)
18. Woodyard, Joyce M., Livingston County, Kentucky Marriage Records, Vol. I (Oct. 1799 - July 1839) (Smithland, KY:  Livingston County Historical & Genealogical Society, 1992) (ACPL) (nothing useful)

Census

1. Census Indexes, 1810-1850 (poor citations, I know!)
2. 1810 Census

Original Records

1. Caldwell Co., KY tax lists, 1809-1829 (on microfilm) (AGLL)
2. Christian Co., KY General Index to Deeds, Vol. 1, 1797-1819 (FHC)
3. Christian Co., KY Deeds, Vol. A-D (FHC)
4. Christian Co., KY tax lists, 1805-1816 (on microfilm) (AGLL)
5. Livingston Co., KY tax lists, 1800-1824 (on microfilm) (only read through 1810) (ACPL)
6. Livingston Col, KY Deeds, Vol. A-B (FHC)

Send comments to Gwyneth Duncan.  Last updated 6/10/97.